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Care Advisor - Entry Level - Ballarat & Wangaratta / Warragul & Wonthaggi

Latrobe Community Health Service

Location and EFT negotiable across the sites of Ballarat & Wangaratta (45.6hrs per fortnight) and Warragul & Wonthaggi (76hrs per fortnight)

  • Join a not-for-profit health care provider who is getting back to what matters
  • Access to discounted Private Health Insurance
  • Develop training packages to support the staff of our large Home Care Services team

At Latrobe Community Health Service you’ll be part of a positive and passionate workplace. We’re dedicated to providing you with career opportunities through work that is rewarding and meaningful within the community.

We are looking for a passionate workplace training professional who is looking to grow and further develop their career with an organisation dedicated to giving back to the community.

The role provides case management support to the frail aged in receipt of services through the Commonwealth Home Care Package program.

We take a wellness and enablement approach to care under the consumer-directed care model that also takes into account consumer capacity. Care Advisors work with a diverse range of clients with Home Care Packages of all levels. Care management levels will vary depending on the level of support chosen by the consumer. This role involves facilitating consumer choice in decision making and meeting needs using analytical processes that require planning and a goals-orientated approach.

This role involves travelling to meet consumers in the community as well as working in an LCHS office. Care Advisors will work closely with our Sales team to advance our market share and strengthen our position within the Home Care sector in Victoria and beyond.

To be successful, you will require

  • Appropriate Qualification compliant with Australian Qualifications Framework (e.g. Diploma of Case Management and/or Community Services /Nursing/ or related field, or 3 or 4 year undergraduate degree in a health related field)
  • Current valid Victorian drivers licence

Desirable requirements

  • Experience in aged care
  • Experience in budgeting/financial management of program services

For more information please contact Paula Gibb, Acting State Manager Home Care Services, on (03) 5136 5258.

At Latrobe Community Health Service we want to help you get back to what matters. To see the full position description and to apply, click on the below link to our website.

We are an equal opportunity employer and therefore, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment. We are partnered with Job Access and pledged to Soldier On. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and identities, LGBTIQ+ people, people with a lived experience of disability and service personnel and their families to name a few. We will make reasonable adjustments when required. We are a child safe organisation. Successful applicants will be required to obtain a satisfactory security clearance and an Employee Working with Children Check before we can make any offer of employment.

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